Cisco Certified Network Consultants

Data centers are the focal point of leveraging information technology assets to optimize the strategic value of a computer network. For small businesses, data centers have often evolved in a piecemeal manner, resulting in a state where processors and storage devices are underutilized, available communications bandwidth is overlooked, collaboration and knowledge sharing is limited, maintenance requirements are excessive, scaling or reconfiguring is expensive, security is poor, nominally simple modifications become giant hassles, and full recovery from catastrophic breakdowns is almost impossible.

Cisco's latest network appliances and tools support a new model of data center design that permits ongoing enhancements in processor, storage, network infrastructure, and application technologies in a maintainable and economical way. Progent's Cisco-certified professionals can assist you to select and implement Cisco's network technology to create a solid foundation for your data center and to streamline your operations in vital areas including:

• Server and disk efficiency
• End-to-end security enforcement
• Processor proliferation
• Regulatory requirements
• Disaster recovery

The business benefits that can be realized as a result of engaging Progent's network consultants to optimize your data center include:

• Lower ownership cost: enables IT management to substantially lower capital costs through consolidation and more efficient use of formerly separate equipment, slash maintenance costs by simplifying and automating management jobs, and cut air conditioning and energy bills.
• More Business Flexibility: permits IT management to respond dynamically to changing competitive conditions by facilitating rapid provisioning of application and infrastructure functions from common pools of integrated processor, storage, and connectivity resources. This helps streamline administrative processes and enable policy-based control.
• Better Business Robustness: enables IT to defend against disruptions or attacks by protecting connections, applications, and information with advanced levels of fault tolerance, pervasive protection, and disaster recovery.
• Improved Service Levels: allows IT to optimize business service levels by implementing secure, fast connectivity to data center-resident applications and data from any place and at any moment across the enterprise.

• Building effective firewall security configurations using Cisco PIX and ASA firewall products
• Deploying and troubleshooting protected VPN access for linking data centers to other data centers, corporate offices, and mobile workers
• Designing, and implementing complete zero-downtime switching, routing, and Internet connectivity environments so that single component failures do not interrupt delivery of services
• Configuring backup Internet providers with transparent transfer based on BGP protocols. Progent can assist clients through the complete path of paperwork with Internet supervisors, having ASN numbers and IP addresses allocated, working with ISP carriers to prepare their environments, and deploying and testing client devices.
• Implementing segmented and protected VLAN environments to compliment VMware virtual server deployments
• Architecting, deploying and helping clients to manage 24x7 IPS systems so that assaults can be identified quickly and defeated before they impact your business
• Designing, setting up, and supporting load balancing solutions. Consulting with clients, Progent can align expressed requirements to the most sensible solutions and implement load balancing at the application level, server level, or network infrastructure layer. Progent's load balancing designs permit transparent and scalable expansion, reliability, security, and redundancy.
• Progent can plan effective network management strategies using Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) and Netflow protocols, along with Cisco Security Manager and a variety of 3rd party products that present customers a powerful real-time view into the activity of their data center's network
• Setting up and supporting advanced data center capable routers and switches such as the Cisco Catalyst 6500 and 6800 family switches, Cisco Nexus 5000, 6000, and 7000 switches, and Cisco 7200, 7600, and 12000 routers.

To learn additional details about Progent's engineering support for Cisco products, select a topic:

• Introduction to Progent's Cisco Consulting Services
• Fast and Affordable Online Access to a CCIE Network Engineer
• Cisco Firepower NGFW Series Firewalls: Integration and Troubleshooting Support
• ASA 5500-X Firewalls with Firepower: Integration and Troubleshooting Support
• Cisco ASA 5500 Firewalls Consulting Expertise
• Cisco PIX 500 Series Firewall Consulting Expertise
• Cisco Routers Consulting Support
• Cisco Wireless Deployment Services
• Cisco Aironet APs Deployment Expertise
• Cisco Small Business WiFi APs Deployment Support
• Cisco Catalyst 802.11ax Wireless Access Points Solution Design, Deployment and Troubleshooting Consulting
• Cisco WiFi Controllers Support Services
• Meraki Wireless APs Design Services
• Cisco Unified Communications Manager (CUCM or Unified CM) and CallManager Configuration and Troubleshooting
• Cisco Voice over IP (VoIP) Phones and IP Video Phones Expertise and Wireless VoIP Phone Solutions
• Cisco Jabber Consulting and Support Expertise
• Catalyst Switches Deployment Services
• Cisco Nexus Switches Deployment Services
• Cisco Meraki MS Switches Consulting and Support Expertise
• Cisco VPN Setup and Troubleshooting Support
• SIP and CUBE Integration Solutions: SIP Trunking and Cisco CUBE Integration Consulting
• Data Center Optimization Expertise for Internet Service Providers
• Centralized Network Management Technologies for Cisco-powered Infrastructure

If you wish to contact Progent about professional help for Cisco technology, call 1-800-993-9400 or see Contact Progent.